Tom Cary is The Telegraph's Formula One Correspondent. You can follow him on Twitter @tomcary_tel

Just back through my front door after the final flight of a long, long season. Plane was packed with journalists, photographers, BBC producers/commentators etc so plenty of post-mortems taking place. Not sure how season finale went down back in Blighty but it was pretty intense out in Abu Dhabi. I've had a few tweets from followers saying they didn't find the race all that exciting but consensus seems to be that Vettel was a deserving winner… certainly he was in my eyes. You can't argue with the fastest man of the year (and probably the least fortunate of the front runners in terms of technical glitches) winding up as world champion. Topics of discussion on flight:

1. Will heads roll at Ferrari? The strategy error with regard to Alonso's early pit-stop was a shocker but is it too easy for us to say that in hindsight? If they had left Alonso out he would probably have pitted around the same time as Hamilton on 22/23 and come out just ahead of Rosberg in a net fourth place once the hard tyre runners stopped. But what if Webber's strategy had worked? Domenicali was honest enough to admit: “We made a wrong decision in terms of strategy for three reasons: we marked a rival with two cars (Alonso and Massa), we were unduly concerned about the wear rate of the soft tyres and we did not take into consideration the difficulty of getting past other cars on the track.” Discuss.

2. How harsh was it all on Webber? The Australian did not come down to talk to us for quite a while after the race as he slowly came to terms with what had just happened. I felt desperately sorry for him. Even though he never looked like winning it in Abu Dhabi, Webber has battled so well all year and exceeded everyone's expectations. It would have been great to see him win. But he promised he would be back in 2011, which is good news for everyone in F1.

3. Was Alonso being a bad sport at the end with his hand gesture to Petrov? I think yes, but remember he had just seen his championship hopes go up in smoke. It was heat of the moment stuff. Later on he acknowledged how well the Russian had driven. I liked Petrov standing up for himself though.

4. Was Vettel's win karma? Was it a victory for clean racing? After all the talk of team orders and Alonso potentially winning a 'tainted' world championship if he had triumphed by seven points or fewer, perhaps Vettel's win was a victory for sport? That is certainly the way it has been pitched in some newspapers this morning. My own view is that Alonso drove brilliantly in the second half of the year and was relentless in cranking up the pressure. He would have been deserving in my eyes. It's a tricky one as I also felt the FIA should have docked points at the time. But they didn't and every team knew what they had to do with half the season still to go.

5. Thank God it didn't come down to those seven points or it would have overshadowed a magnificent season. But that should not let the FIA off the hook. The team orders rule needs to be tightened up or scrapped altogether. There is too much ambiguity. Because of the way it panned out in the end, with Webber so far back, everyone conveniently seems to have forgotten that Red Bull would also have manipulated the race result yesterday had they needed to. If it had been Vettel-Webber-Alonso going into final lap, the German would have pulled aside. I'm not saying he shouldn't have – and clearly there is a distinction between doing it of your own volition when your title chances are over – I'm just saying that the whole team orders issue is a muddle. What is morally acceptable to one fan is anathema to another.

6. Max Mosley likes to use an analogy that to excuse team orders by saying "everyone does it" does not wash. I agree. Mosley adds that to scrap the ban would be like scrapping the law against stealing – just because the law isn't 100 per cent fail-proof doesn't mean you should scrap it altogether. Here I disagree. There is no other alternative with regard to the law against stealing. Clearly you can't legalise it so you must have an imperfect situation whereby people break the law and you enforce it when you can. With the team orders ban you can scrap it – indeed most of the paddock would like to – and then we wouldn't have hypocrisy and ambiguity. It would involve re-educating the watching public however.

7. A somewhat agitated Domenicali said on Sunday night that the controversy over team orders is a peculiarly British obsession. "Everywhere else it was forgotten two days after Germany," he said. He is right in some respects. We do go harder at it than anyone else. But it wasn't forgotten by the Brazilians when we were out there two weeks ago. It wasn't forgotten by the Germans. And whether or not he feels there is a vendetta against Ferrari/Alonso, the fact is the FIA's own laws prohibit team orders. There is a ban, which was not adequately upheld. The debate is a valid one.